Carlovingian
Americanadjective
adjective
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But in the Carlovingian romances, which arose at a time when the enthusiasm of the Crusades was permeating Christendom, events were represented in a wholly different light.
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Not only was it the extinction of the great house which had bravely held its own from Carlovingian times, but the people felt that the last barrier between them and the hated Frenchmen was removed.
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The dense ignorance of the tenth century, which followed the evanescent Carlovingian civilization, had begun in the eleventh to yield to the first faint pulsations of intellectual movement.
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He instituted the school for it in the Lateran, whence the Carlovingian monarchs obtained teachers of singing and organ-playing.
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The names of these princes suffice to remind us of the decline of the Carlovingian race.
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